This Belongs in a Museum

The Jewish Museum in Berlin was definitely a meaningful experience for a museologist (and half-Jew) like me. But it sounds like their current exhibit “The Whole Truth” is causing a lot of con...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/the-jewish-museum-in-berlin/

Elvis died August 16, 1977 (or did he???). I’ve been wanting to write about this place for, I don’t know, a few years but I’ll let American Guide tell you about it because I am a lazy procr...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/graceland-too-in-holly-springs-mississippi-paul-macleod/

Sorry to disappoint any ornamental plant fans out there, but the Rose Museum is actually named after the Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, which helps support a small museum dedicated to the histo...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/rose-museum-dedicated-to-the-history-of-carnegie-hall-new-york-city/

I bet you had no idea it’s been 50 years since the Beatles traveled to America for their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Well, let me be the first to tell ya, ladies and gents. For a firsth...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/the-museo-beatle-buenos-aires-argentina/

I think the saying is “April showers bring May flowers” or something like that. Even though when it comes to the British Isles I think the rainy period lasts more than a month, it’s more li...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/the-marianne-north-gallery-of-botanic-art-in-kew-gardens-london/

The Japanese Rural Toy Museum, founded in 1967, is hidden behind a bunch of old warehouses in the back alleys of Kurashiki. Hundreds of handmade and antique toys from different parts of Japan are...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/japanese-rural-toy-museum-kurashiki-japan/

Siberia is a lonely place. One woman in the far away remote village of Kamarchaga, located in the Siberian Taiga, has found a very entertaining hobby to help pass the time. Russian pensioner Olga...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/bottle-caps-house-siberia-russia/

I bet you didn’t know November is National Model Railroad Month. Well, last month I just happened to visit the Garfield-Clarendon Model Railroad Club in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Chicago...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/garfield-clarendon-model-railroad-club-in-chicagos-uptown-neighborhood/

The Kin-der-kids, Lyonel Feininger, lithograph comic strip, MOMA The Kin-der-Kids was a comic by German-American painter and caricaturist Lyonel Feininger and published by the Chicago Sunday Trib...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/the-kin-der-kids-lyonel-feininger-lithograph-comic-strip-moma/

I think this week Kanye and I will tell you about our favorite museums of all time. Okay…I know I haven’t seen every museum in the world, but I’ve been to quite a few in my day, especially ...

https://thisbelongsinamuseum.com/the-pitt-rivers-museum-in-oxford-england/